March 21, 2004

COMMIE INKIES DRAW BLOOD

Michael Leunig and Steve Bell continue to duke it out for the title of Worst Cartoonist in the Commonwealth. Go Mike! Beat the hairy Limey!

(Via ilibcc and reader Patrick B.)

Posted by Tim Blair at March 21, 2004 12:32 AM
Comments

Are there actually any CONSERVATIVE(ISH) cartoonists left in this country!?

Posted by: Richard at March 21, 2004 at 01:00 AM

They are disconcertingly rare. But, then again, they are 'artists', aren't they.

Personally, I think all true, higher art ended with the birth of modernism. The moment liberals took hold of the art establishment, all sense of skill or technique was simply pissed away.

I mean, really. Who is Michael Leunig anyway, aside from a particularly talentless finger-painter with a Byzantine surname and all the carefree, politically unaligned humour of Leon Trotsky.

Posted by: Mike Jericho at March 21, 2004 at 01:34 AM

Half of Bell's and three-quarter's of Leunig's cartoons weren't even drawan, just ineptly Photoshopped in (if they used so sophisticated a program -- I think they must have used scissors and Elmer's glue). And Leunig expects us to cry over the destruction of Saddam's palaces and the Ba'athist government buildings (which is what those photos are showing)?

Sometimes I think if these guys just had a daily spanking session with a dominatrix (perhaps dressed in a burka, or an old Iraqi Republican Guard uniform) they'd be happier.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 21, 2004 at 02:57 AM

PS: Mike, you left the ":" out of your url (supposed to come after "http") -- I fixed it.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 21, 2004 at 02:59 AM

They're only in the race since Ted Rall shut up shop...

Posted by: Frank Sensenbrenner at March 21, 2004 at 09:28 AM

I suspect Steve Bell is Jewish, which embarasses me as a Jew. Hope I'm wrong...

Posted by: king crab at March 21, 2004 at 11:36 AM

No fair! You forgot Ron Tandberg. His stuff is far less worthwhile than even Leunig's recent obsession with politics.

Posted by: Craig Mc at March 21, 2004 at 12:19 PM

"They're only in the race since Ted Rall shut up shop..."

I just checked - he's still out there, and as blissfully stupid as ever.

Posted by: Craig Mc at March 21, 2004 at 12:22 PM